Short Fiction · Character
Roger Button
Roger Button is a respectable Baltimore hardware wholesaler whose orderly life is upended by a son born old, bearded, and already speaking in complete sentences.
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Also known as Mr. Roger Button, Mr. Button, Button, the newborn Button, old Roger Button
First appearance: tarquin of cheapside
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Benjamin's father, who is initially horrified by his son's appearance.
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Roger Button wants nothing more than to be a normal father to a normal heir, but his newborn son arrives looking like a seventy-year-old man and calling him 'father' with grotesque courtesy. He chops the beard with…
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